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Has Leopard been a dissapointment?

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I tried MacOSX 10.4 out recently, and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience: a strong GUI with a strong shell! I was anxiously awaiting what MacOSX 10.5 will have to offer. Apple then finally unveiled MacOSX 10.5 in the WWDC. And by all accounts what I've been reading its release had been a disappointment.

There are 2 things to the build up of the unveiling that made me excited about Leopard:

1, First was the inclusion of ZFS, if you have ever come across ZFS you would know what a powerful filesystem it is. ZFS creates partitions and formats drives in a snap, it is ultra scalable and ensure file system and data integrity. Clones of ZFS filesystems can be created with the blink of an eye. However Leopard did not come with ZFS at all, although people claimed it to be the OS's 'secret weapon'!

2, Built in virtualization was a highly desired feature! This certainly would have been a killer feature! If MacOSX 10.5 ever would take on the Windows World, without built in virtualization it would have no chance. Sure there is Parrallels, and VMware Fusion etc, but having native virtualization within the platform would have compelled many people to switch

Other eye candy features do not interest me, many people are comparing Leopard with Vista, and have determined that it is offering nothing new. I'll end this post with a few excerpts from different places from the internet:

From Web Worker Daily:

"Mail and iCal are still the biggest web worker disappointments from Apple. So much potential not fully realized. We live and die by our email, and Apple somehow thinks we spend our day designing postcards of our last vacation to send to Grandma? Serious web workers are probably going to stick to Thunderbird or Gmail. The improvements to these productivity apps are so superficial in Leopard, they weren’t even worth mentioning in today’s presentation."

From Softpedia:

"What does Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard have that Windows Vista doesn't? The answer is nothing... On the Apple official website, the Cupertino-based company makes an irresistible invitation: "Leopard. Conquer Time and Space." Right... Conquer time and space so that in October you will be able to return all the way to Windows Vista, released by Microsoft in January 2007 for the general public. In its quest to advance the world's most advanced operating system and to master both the dimensions of time and space, Apple has built a replica of Windows Vista"